Spain is obsessed with sport, with their most popular newspaper regularly devoting 30 pages a day to Real Madrid and Barcelona, but when and why did the country decide that it could happily live without the world of boxing?
By Paul Gibson for The Balls of Wrath, part of the Guardian Sport Network
On 13 July, the Barry McGuigan-managed featherweight, Marco McCullough, received a call at home in Belfast. Check your passport, he was told, you have a fight in Madrid’s Hipódromo de Zarzuela on the 24th. It was short notice and away from home, but Marco didn’t care. He’d been itching to get back in the ring and would have willingly travelled to Outer Mongolia if required.
On the following day the venue was changed to a sports centre in a northern suburb of Madrid. On the 16th it was moved down the road to the Jardines de Araceli. On the 19th it settled on the Palacio de Vistalegre in south Madrid. Then on the 21st, just two days before the weigh in and with Marco’s family and friends already packing for a weekend in the Spanish capital, the entire bill was unceremoniously cancelled. No official reason was given but, this being Spain, financial mismanagement was the likely culprit.
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